Improvement in attachments for plows



M. ROBERTS..

Wheel P|0w.-

N0. 53,749.v Patented Apr. 3, 1866.

NAFETERS. PHOTO-UTNOGRAPHEH, WASHINGTON n C UNITED STATES FFICE.

PATENT MILTON ROBERTS, OF ST. PAUL, ASSI GNOR TO HIMSELF AND NATHAN H.ROBERTS, OF RIGHFJELD, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHMENTS FOR 'PLOWS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 53,749, dated April 3,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON ROBERTS, of St. Paul, in the county of Ramseyand State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved RidingAttachment for Flows; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable thoseskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 is a side View of my invention; Fig. 2, a rear view of thesame; Fig. 3 a detached inverted plan of a roller attachment pertainingthereto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved riding or sulky attachmentfor common or ordinary plows, whereby the latter may be operated withthe greatest facility and the plowman enabled to either ride or walk, ashe may desire, the invention at the same time admitting of the plow, bya very simple manipulation, being readily conveyed from place to place.

The invention also relates to an improved roller and weed gathering orcollecting attachment, whereby the weeds are rolled down and preventedfrom clogging up and interfering with the operation of the colter, andare covered by the furrow-slice turned over by the plow.

The invention further relates to a novel construction of one of thewheels of the device, whereby said wheel 'is rendered subservient inturning the furrow-slice, and admitting of the plow being constructed,rather more than hitherto, with a view to an easy draft.

A represents an axle, and B B wheels fitted thereon so as to turnfreely. This axle has a short tongue, 0, projecting from its front, atthe right of its center, and to the axle, at the rear of the tongue 0, asupport, 1), is attached, with the drivers seat E on its upper end.

F is a plow of the ordinary turn-furrow form. G is the beam thereof, andH H the handles. These parts may be of the usual construction, andtherefore do not require a minute descrip tion.

To the under side of the plow-beam G there is secured an adjustablehook, I, on which an eye, J, at the outer end of the tongue 0 is fitted.

The wheel 13 is between the handles H H of the plow, and the ends of thehandles are within convenient reach of the driver on seat E, and alsowithin reach'of him if walking behind the device. This wheel B runs inthe furrow, and its outer side is formed with a concave concentricflange, K, (shown clearly in Fig. 2,) which flange assists in turningthe furrow-slice, and admits of the mold board of plow F being maderather less flaring or concave than hitherto, and consequently causesthe draft to be materially diminished. The ordinary mold boards arenecessarily made quite flaring, in order to turn the furrow-slice, andthis greatly increases the draft.

The plow, in being attached to the device, (riding attachment,) asshown, is nearly or quite self-supporting; but it may be steadied in itsmovement by a rod, L, attached at one end by a pivot, a, to the rearside of the axle A, and formed with a hook, b,at its outer end, to catchover the left handle H of the plows, as shown in black in Figs. 1 and 2.

In drawing the plow from place to place it is turned leftwise over uponthe tongue O, and secured thereon by placing the hook I) of the rod Lover the right handle H, as shown in red in Fig. 2.

Thus by this simple arrangement the plow may be operated with thegreatest facility and with but comparatively little labor, and if theplow inclines a little, either to the right or left, the difficulty maybe obviated by adjusting the hook I either to the right or left of beamG.

The weight of the driver on seat E will about balance the device, andthe wheels B B are small in diameter, sufficiently so to admit of thedriver getting readily off and upon seat E.

M is a frame, of rectangular or other proper form, and having a roller,N, fitted in its rear part. This frame M is attached to the axle A, atits rear side, at such a point that the roller N will work over theground adjoining the furrow made by plow F.

To the under side of the frame M there are attached two oblique rods, 00, (see Fig. 3,) which serve to gather the weeds and trash toward thecenter of the roller, which bends or crushes them down to the ground,parallel with the furrow and out of the way of the colter of the plowwhen the latter makes the succeeding furrow, and the weeds and trash, inconsequence of being thus bent down, are pre vented from interferingwith the proper turning of the furrow, the furrow-slice completelycovering them.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The attaching of the plow to the axle and wheels, in the mannersubstantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The rod J, pivoted to the axle A, and provided with a hook, I, at itsouter end, in combination with the plow and the wheels and MILTONROBERTS.

Witnesses F. BEEBE,

N. H. ROBERTS, J. O. HALL.

